From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Nicolas Goaziou Subject: Re: Bug: agenda interaction with org-agenda-dim-blocked-tasks, org-agenda-max-entries and org-enforce-todo-dependencies [8.3beta (release_8.3beta-785-gb5d9f4 @ /Users/yn/dotfiles/org.emacs.d/org-mode/lisp/)] Date: Tue, 03 Feb 2015 23:12:11 +0100 Message-ID: <874mr23aro.fsf@nicolasgoaziou.fr> References: <87d25q3dh5.fsf@nicolasgoaziou.fr> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:52757) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YIlga-0002tE-Nq for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Tue, 03 Feb 2015 17:11:09 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YIlgX-0002lG-Oz for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Tue, 03 Feb 2015 17:11:08 -0500 Received: from relay4-d.mail.gandi.net ([2001:4b98:c:538::196]:36378) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YIlgX-0002lA-Ij for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Tue, 03 Feb 2015 17:11:05 -0500 In-Reply-To: (Yuri Niyazov's message of "Tue, 3 Feb 2015 13:49:30 -0800") List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: Yuri Niyazov Cc: "emacs-orgmode@gnu.org" Yuri Niyazov writes: > Yes, that seems to me the behavior I am seeing. Are you saying that > this is not a bug? It doesn't look like one. > It is certainly very surprising behavior. I had the "make blocked > tasks invisible" setting for months, and then only recently started > limiting the number of entries, so it took me quite some time to > figure out why I was seeing only, for example, 4 items in the agenda > when I was expecting to see 10 (which is where the > org-agenda-max-entries setting is) - the two settings are not > obviously related. Documentation (e.g., docstrings) may be improved, then. Would you want to suggest such an improvement? > Also, this is inconsistent with other settings like > org-agenda-skip-deadline-if-done and > org-agenda-skip-deadline-prewarning-if-scheduled, which actively > remove items from the agenda view. I understand that the setting has > the verb "skip" rather than "dim" in it, but that's not enough of an > indicator up front to know that the two settings work differently when > it comes to counting towards the total. > >> You may want to skip altogether blocked tasks instead. > > What do you mean by that? As you noticed, skipping is not the same as dimming. The latter is purely visual. See `org-agenda-skip-function' to really skip tasks from agenda, and probably `org-entry-blocked-p' to ignore blocked tasks. Regards,